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Inuyasha’s got 99 problems but pain ain’t one. In his half-demon form, Inuyasha literally cannot feel pain. Oh, his body still knows he’s been injured and he cannot escape the inevitable side effects that accompany blood loss/poisoning but that’s not pain.
Like the domesticated dog, Inuyasha is color blind. Specifically red-green colorblind because why not? He might not see any color at all. Maybe it’s only blue-yellow. Up to you. Run with it.
As a human, Inuyasha needs glasses which is why he feels blind. For inspiration on how that might look, see this Tiktok.
Gramps has a doctor friend who manufactures evidence of Kagome’s illness so child protective services or truancy court won’t get involved. The friend is like Fox Moulder from X-files and desperately wants to believe demons are out there.
A fully grown Shippo works for the school board and constantly has to brush Kagome’s absences under the rug.
Hojo knows exactly who and what Inuyasha is due to his family’s meticulous organization and record keeping habits. That’s why he keeps asking Kagome out even though she clearly isn’t interested. He wants to ask her point blank when they’re alone.
In his advanced age, Sesshomaru is the one who purchased and bequeathed the Higurashi shrine because his daughter eventually finds her way there and he wants to make up for his shitty parenting or, really, the lack of parenting.
Gramps does have spiritual powers. He just holds back and acts a fool so no one believes Kagome does.
Inuyasha loves cats but has never been stable enough to have a pet. In the course of his life post-quest eventually ends up the male equivalent of a cat lady because he wants to make up for lost time. “Inuyasha, please, we don’t need another…” *Inuyasha emerges from the cat pile* “DON’T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE WOMAN”
There is a demon version of the Men in Black who swoop in every time Inuyasha & Kagome have a modern day misadventure.
Inuyasha doesn’t curse - much - because his mother was very clear. Murder okay. Cursing bad.
Mama Higurashi & Gramps know exactly what happens in the quest thanks to some old records. The entire time they knew and that’s why they’re okay with their teenage girl hopping through the well.
The school friend who wrote the Ode to Joy ripoff about the Sacred Jewel is one of the group’s descendants.
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neutronstarchild · 2 years
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Akitoki Hōjō
It might seem odd, asking his wife to take the name Kagome, but Akitoki knows better. The name Kagome is a blessing, in honor of a kamisama of time, space, and beauty. In a different world, a different life, maybe the real Kagome would be a Hōjō. At least he can dream.
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shinidamachu · 2 years
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Inuyasha, Koga, Akitoki and Hojo should create a boyband called The Kagome Simps.
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matsuharuu · 19 days
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After a while I have been able to update "Kagome's Will" thanks for reading! 🌸🌙
Kagome's Will (38960 words) by matsuharu Chapters: 20/? Fandom: InuYasha - A Feudal Fairy Tale Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Higurashi Kagome/Sesshoumaru, InuYasha/Kikyou (InuYasha), Miroku/Sango (InuYasha) Characters: Sesshoumaru (InuYasha), InuYasha (InuYasha), Higurashi Kagome, Kikyou (InuYasha), Sango (InuYasha), Miroku (InuYasha), Hojo Akitoki, Higurashi Kagome's Mother, Higurashi Souta, Inu no Taishou, Izayoi (InuYasha) Additional Tags: Heartbreak, Love, Friends With Benefits, Family Drama, Sex, Fuckbuddies, Fluff and Angst, Complicated Relationships, One-Sided Relationship, Modern Era, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Hurt/Comfort, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Drunk Sex Summary: Kagome and Inuyasha couldn't remember how long they had been friends. She had been secretly in love with Inuyasha for a long time, but she always hid her feelings to not corrupt their friendship, one day she discovers that Inuyasha has started a relationship with Kikyo, a classmate of them. Kagome has the will to forget Inuyasha at any cost. To her surprise, she ends in the arms of a stranger who would change her life drastically and makes her discover her most hidden desires. --- Some chapters will be NSFW / +18 (I'll identify them properly in the titles) Maybe you find situations that make you feel a bit angsty (But I promise is not that much) This fanfic was written initially by me in a different language, so this is not a literal translation but my reinterpretation in English.
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inukag-archive · 2 years
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Hi archive,
I love fanfics that take place in the 'normal storyline', like in a chapter of the manga or between the chapters, just some extra stuff to the original story/ some fluff for InuKag. Anything will do :) Have you got a list of these or maybe some recommendations for me?
Thanks in advance :)
Hi, anon! We've got a few fics here for you that fit your in-canon requirements. Happy reading! ❤
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To Pacify a High School Entrance Exam by @hanmajoerin (G)
With Kagome’s high school entrance exams around the corner and news about her powers, even the stars were overwhelming to look at. When InuYasha joins her, though, it doesn’t seem so bad. InuKag. Takes place between volumes 52-53.
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A Rude Awakening by @born-for-eachother (T)
Inuyasha's reaction as he walks in on Akitoki Hojo trying to kiss a sleeping Kagome. Based off of episodes 137-138 of the anime.
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Catching Feelings (Chapter 9: Choice) by @dyaz-stories (T)
Inuyasha struggles with feelings he had tried to bury and is able to make a decision that takes them into account.
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Puppy Kisses (Chapter 12: Clean Slate) by @superpixie42 (M)
An alternate ending to Episode 52 “The Demon’s True Nature” /Ch 187
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Beautiful by Aryndiel (T)
Inuyasha feels horrible and a little curious about his transformations into his youkai self. Set in the Stone Oni episode of the anime, after Inuyasha transforms back and Kagome faints. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
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Sorting Things Out by @artistefish (K)
Inuyasha and Kagome have a little heart-to-heart regarding ardent ancestors, family scrolls, and memories from a castle beyond a mirror. Takes place directly after episodes 137-140.
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Almost Lost by @lostinfantasyworlds (T)
An additional scene for episode #107 Inuyasha Shows His Tears for the First Time. Inuyasha and Kagome share an emotional talk after he almost loses her forever. Takes place right after the scene with Koga.
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His Hands by Quickening (T)
Thunderstorms are inconvenient most times, but the rare opportunity to closely study a grouchy hanyou is too good to pass up ... especially when said hanyou insists on sleeping on you. Fair's fair, right?
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I Don't Deserve Happiness by @fawn-eyed-girl, @neutronstarchild & @ruddcatha (G)
It shouldn’t have taken goddamned Kaō for Inuyasha to understand the blackness of his grief over failing Kikyō. He had almost succumbed, almost let that dipshit take him, almost… forgotten. He had failed to protect Kikyō. He didn’t deserve happiness. He deserved to follow her in death. Then he heard Kagome’s voice once more, calling him back from the abyss, reminding him that he deserved to live. (A missing scene of the night after the Inutachi defeated Kaō.)
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All of Your Pieces by @mustardyellowsunshine (G)
She learned to love him slowly, cherishing each new piece of him.
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Loving Him was Red by @born-for-eachother (T)
For her hands will heal him, protect him, shield him from all adversity.
Or, Kagome comforting Inuyasha following the events that took place after he transformed.
Chapters 185-187 in the manga, episode 52 in the anime.
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During the Rain by Dea_Luna_Leigh (G)
Seeking shelter from a sudden storm, Kagome and Inuyasha find themselves separated from the rest of the group and take shelter in a cave. Just a small one-shot of these two having a small bonding moment.
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Show and Tell by @clearwillow (T)
The morning after the new moon at Togenkyo, Kagome has some choice words for Inuyasha. He does too, but he's less inclined to say them.
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Just One of Those Things by @mamabearcat (T)
For some reason today, everything felt twice as difficult. She’d woken up with a headache, and she felt like she was swimming against the tide, her movements clumsy and awkward. She didn’t feel ill exactly, but definitely not well – her stomach felt a little off and the area below it felt weird, like she’d overstretched some muscles maybe.
She’d almost caught up with Inuyasha when a sudden warm trickling feeling between her legs made her halt and freeze.
Oh. Oh no. Oh no no no. This couldn’t be happening. Not out here.
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Now What? by Merith (K)
A bit of fluff after episode 79. Kagome sees Inuyasha as never before!
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Silver and Gold by @splendentgoddess (E)
Christmas Eve is a time to celebrate family, love, and togetherness. Not something Kagome gets a lot of while trying to stop Naraku. But everyone deserves the occasional night off, right? Takes place during manga chapter 512.
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Slow and Gentle by @mamabearcat (G)
A small canon moment in time where absolutely nothing momentous happens, but is precious all the same. Sometimes it's those slow and gentle moments that help a budding relationship to grow.
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InuKag Week 2021 (Chapter 2: Take Your Bets) by @kstewdeux (G)
June 7th, 2021 - Battle Couple. Originally Posted On Tumblr.
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The Taste of Sunlight by @serial-doubters-club (G)
After Inuyasha and Kagome witness Souta confess his feelings to Hitomi, will they be inspired to make confessions of their own?
Based on that InuKag moment in Episode 90: Souta's Brave Confession of Love. You know the one.
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Weight Watcher by @clearwillow (T)
All it takes is one comment to completely wreck a girl's self-image. Sometimes it can take years to shake that comment and move on. For Kagome, help comes in the form of a foul-mouthed hanyou who tells it like it is... in about five minutes. Slight InuKag fluff. Set after episode 140.
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Plastic Heart by @lavendertwilight89 (T)
Takes place during and after episode 89 Nursing Battle of the Rival Lovers--Inuyasha realizes he's taken Kagome for granted and it dawns on him he needs to do better
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inukag · 1 year
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Speaking of filler episodes/arcs making Inuyasha (mostly him) ooc, there's one arc that makes Kagome (not only wildly OOC, but also makes her kind of dense/dumb): the kenkon halberd arc with Akitoki Hojo. - I hope you don't mind I lay off this rant (been bottling that up for MONTHS now). I just HATE the disservice to Kagome's character
(I'm not listing them in order, btw)
First sign where she's made sort of dumb (which she is in reality NOT throughout the series): Hojo shows up with that scroll to show his ancestor KAgome Hojo (🙄🙄 dude, we see what you're trying, you are DENSE), and she has that INCREDIBLY OOC moment where she wonders, and almost with certainty --after they run into A. Hojo-- that she will stay in the past and marry him... Like WTAF? That's just SO OOC because at point in the story, she admitted to naraku's evil baby that she's in love with Inuyasha; it also portrays her as stupid as if she doesn't even consider that there may be other girls/women name Kagome.
Then there's guilt tripping Inu to help akitoki, telling him "don't you feel guilty?" which he rightly replies with "why? Naraku destroyed Mount Hakurei (?)".
When Inuyasha is saying that humans shouldn't mess with yokai weapons, that is not their business, her thoughts keep going into tangents (several times during the three episodes), and reading "humans should not mess with yokai weapons" somehow equals "yokai/hanyo shouldn't get involved romantically")
When she and dense ancestors are separated from the rest of the gang, she remains quiet when Akitoki makes a veiled racist remark regarding inuyasha when she mentions she doesn't have a boyfriend (WHICH ISN'T TRUE, SHE'S WITH INU AT THAT POINT) and he goes all "I understand you travel with half demon and a monk who aren't appropriate husband material" and on top of that he goes "i'm sure under this sky is a young man destined for you" (jesus, this guy is like koga, if not worse (stealing a kiss, hello?) and she again pretty much accepts those words.
In than same scene, she quickly dismisses the thought of Inuyasha potentially becoming her hubby with a shake off her head that would have been IC for the first 5 episodes of the series, NOT this far into the story.
Then when the dude falls asleep SHE PUTS HIS HEAD ON HER LAP - that shit is ooc af and a slap to the face to the first new moon with Inu.
I'm sure I'm forgetting some more OOC Kagome moments.
And ofc, Inuyasha is bit OOC in this arc because this akitoki asshole keep acting like he's Kagome's intended husband, keeps shouting his love for her (despite knowing her for one hot minute), and Inuyasha says NOTHING (I'm sure he would have ripped his arms if he knew this fucker tried to kiss her while she slept).
Sorry that was long. ❤
(Sorry for answering this a month later than I said I would, last time I watched these episodes was YEARS ago so I wanted to rewatch them before I answered this ask!) 
First of all, I have to disagree a bit about this idea that these episodes made Kagome look completely dumb. At least in terms of action/battle, they made her use her arrows numerous times (people always complain about her not doing anything) and she was smart enough to 1- Test the sword on her friends’ lookalikes to see if they are yokai 2- Question them when they used her and Akitoki’s names 3- Rightly guessing that the girls are actually puppets and that’s why they weren’t affected by the blade
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That was quick thinking of her and showed that she’s resourceful too, which is great! This is a lot like early-manga Kagome, like when she burned the toad demon or when she attached a yokai leg to her arrow. 
Now her assuming that a “Kagome Hojo” existing in the past must mean that she stayed behind and married Akitoki was pretty... weird. Unless Kagome is a rare name in Japan? I don’t know about that. 
But YES what bothered me the most in those episodes is how Kagome barely acknowledges her relationship with Inuyasha?? Like you said she completely shakes off the idea that Inuyasha is her boyfriend and that he could potentially end up with him??? 
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GIRL WHAT you literally screamed that you love Inuyasha and cuddled him like 10 episodes ago??? 😭 Although this was in response to Akitoki telling her that the person who will eat her cooking everyday is very lucky, so maybe this was Kagome saying “well Inuyasha wouldn’t enjoy my cooking” because this episode has another instance of Inuyasha saying he enjoys instant ramen more than home-made cooking....
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Sunrise PLEASE shut up..... Inuyasha isn’t Naruto! Loving ramen is not one of his core personality traits! There’s nothing in the manga that indicates it’s the only food he enjoys...
Anyway, Kagome not mentioning her relationship with Inuyasha is still wildly OOC when you consider how she reacted to Koga flirting with her and mocking Inuyasha... 
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The whole theme of this arc was the differences between yokai and human and whether or not they are compatible... so I think what Sunrise tried to do is to set back Inuyasha and Kagome’s relationship so they can then re-confirm their chemistry at the end to prove that yokai/human relationships are indeed possible... 
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It’s just very weird to do this that far in the series (this arc spans episodes 137-140). The plot with Hoshiyomi and Tsukiyomi was also just a repeat of Inuyasha and Kikyo, with the whole “they thought they betrayed each other but they actually didn’t” so it wasn’t particularly original. 
It really was such a weird tangent, Inuyasha saying “humans shouldn’t mess with yokai weapons” and Kagome ending up with “maybe my relationship with Inuyasha won’t work after all”... It would have been an interesting idea to explore if Kagome actually brought up significant differences between them that could lead to problems (like the anime-only idea that Inuyasha is 200 years old, or their children having yokai features, human villagers not accepting them, etc.) but none of that was addressed so it felt very shallow. 
I think it’s kind of funny that Akitoki declaring his feelings for Kagome was just ignored by pretty much everyone except Shippo essentially calling him cringy and Kagome questioning her future for a few minutes. I kinda hated that Kagome put his head on her lap when he was sleeping but it’s almost like she wanted to see if she would get butterflies in her stomach like the first time she did that with Inuyasha, but she clearly didn’t feel anything so she realized it wasn’t going to happen 😭
All in all I don’t think these fillers are bad. There’s some annoying set backs and OOCness but it ends with some wholesome Inukag moments too. It’s not like some of the filler episodes that makes Inukag look toxic (except maybe that line at the end of episode 140 where Inuyasha says Kagome is not kind...) or skews the love triangle. Also these episodes highlight a major problem I have with the anime, and that is the animation quality and style changing every episode. Episode 138 & 140 have amazing animation directors (Shouko Ikeda and Kumiko Takahashi) but the other 2 are mediocre imo and it’s very jarring. At least in the manga Rumiko Takahashi’s art is consistent. 
ALSO if you think Akitoki deserves to get beat up by Inuyasha for trying to kiss Kagome without her consent you should read A Rude Awakening by @born-for-eachother! Kat went HARD on Akitoki in her fanfic, Inuyasha was ready for murder LMAO. 
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the-kirin · 2 months
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The latest chapter is now up on Ao3
N.B. This is actually chapter 36 but Tumblr won't allow me to edit the link text any more. I'll fix it if I find a way.
Title: Bend and Don’t Break
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: Fifty years have passed since the Avatar’s disappearance. Fifty years since the war between nations came to a bitter end. A new world has risen from the ashes of tragedy. Yet the embers of war threaten to rekindle. Faced with a precarious future, a simple Water Tribe girl seeks to restore balance to the world. (InuKag, AtLA AU)
Content warnings: Canon-level violence (Inuyasha), major character death, swearing, body horror, psychological horror, torture, sexual intimidation, physical abuse of minors, psychological abuse of minors,  mentions of death and injury to minors, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry and prejudice
Pairings: Inuyasha x Kagome, Onigumo/Naraku > Kikyou (unrequited), Akitoki Hojo > Kagome (unrequited), past Inu no Taishou x Izayoi, male OC x male OC, female OC x female OC
Genres: Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance
Chapter preview:
Kagome clasped her hands to her chest. Her breath caught in her throat. Inuyasha was in front of her before another word could leave her lips.
“You.” His voice was a growl...
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kirins-stuff · 10 months
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The latest chapter is now up on Ao3
N.B. This is actually chapter 33 but Tumblr won't allow me to edit the link text any more. I'll fix it if I find a way.
Title: Bend and Don’t Break
Rating: PG-13/T
Summary: Fifty years have passed since the Avatar’s disappearance. Fifty years since the war between nations came to a bitter end. A new world has risen from the ashes of tragedy. Yet the embers of war threaten to rekindle. Faced with a precarious future, a simple Water Tribe girl seeks to restore balance to the world. (InuKag, AtLA AU)
Content warnings: Canon-level violence (Inuyasha), major character death, swearing, body horror, psychological horror, torture, sexual intimidation, physical abuse of minors, psychological abuse of minors,  mentions of death and injury to minors, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry and prejudice
Pairings: Inuyasha x Kagome, Onigumo/Naraku > Kikyou (unrequited), Akitoki Hojo > Kagome (unrequited), past Inu no Taishou x Izayoi, male OC x male OC, female OC x female OC
Genres: Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance
Chapter preview:
Inuyasha didn't move. Sango stared him down. The spirit stared with her. Faint light flickered in his palms. The air was taut with silence.
"I see you still don't do hints."
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purplemys · 1 year
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Hello~ hello~ ^^
For that ask post - how about Inuyasha? <33
Hey, Mirka!! ^^
Fandom: Inuyasha
Favorite Character: Kagome Higurashi, used to draw her a lot, with Inuyasha ofc
Least Favorite Character: Since there's a lot of characters in Inuyasha, we should focus on the main and supporting cast, so...I guess Akitoki Hojo? He's just so....bland and annoying. Not to mention his ancestor just tried to kiss Kagome in her sleep. E w
5 Favorite Ships: InuKag OFC, MirSan, SesshKagu, SesshKik (to a degree), and NarKik(to an even lesser degree, like crackship levels)
Character I Find Most Attractive: Kagome. Hands down.
Character I Would Marry: Kagome. She is WIFE MATERIAL ✨
Character I would Be Best Friends With: Sango. Get you a gal pal like Sango, supportive and capable of fighting off demons :D
A Random Thought: If you fucked Sesshoumaru during his dog form, it's totally bestiality, right?
An Unpopular Opinion: I'm not that fond of Shippou. Also, I was a fan of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha being pretty good brothers fics.
My Canon OTP: Inuyasha X Kagome
My Non-Canon OTP: Sesshoumaru X Kagura
Most Badass Character: Sango. Forgot the specifics of how she got "killed" but she was buried alive and dug herself out and immediately went out for vengeance. Also, her weapon is awesome. She's strong, powerful, and really pretty. I love it when she has her hair up in a ponytail and .... Guys, I think I have a type.
Pairing I Am Not A Fan Of: InuKik (Inuyasha X Kikyo) Bro, I swear Kikyou would have been a tragic character and I could have cared even a bit for her relationship with Inuyasha if both her and the ship didn't feel so shallow??? And you can make the argument that that's the point ✨ "Their love is meant to be shallow, destructive, and immature!" then every instance of "Inuyasha loved Kikyou the most 😔" in the show is NULL because he clearly did not ???? Rant over.
Character I Feel The Writer Screwed Up In One Way Or Another: Miroku being such a sleeze was a turn off from an otherwise great character. Please everything except that.
Character I Want To Adopt Or Be Adopted By: I'd like to adopt Rin. Would probably be fun.
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authorautumnbanks · 3 months
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"Kagome!" a man with brown hair yells, waving his hand high in the sky. Satoru frowns. Who the hell is this guy? And why is he so damn happy to see Kagome?
"Oh no," Kagome says, planting her hands on her thighs. The dark yoga pants are nearly enough to distract Satoru from what she just said.
Oh no, as in she doesn't want to be bothered? Or oh no, as in they need to knock this guy out?
"Is he a problem?" Suguru asks. The murderous intent ebbs and flows off Suguru in waves, but Kagome either does not notice the change in Suguru or she's used to that level of intensity from him.
"No," Kagome sighs. "Akitoki Hojo is just annoying."
"Hojo?" Suguru and Satoru say. Suguru shoots him a wondering look, but Satoru ignores him.
Kagome flashes them a smile before putting on a fake one as Hojo approaches. "Hi, Hojo!" she chirps. "How's your wife?"
Satoru's shoulders drop. He exhales. Good, this guy has a wife. Even so, why is he so damn happy to see Kagome?
"She is doing well. I see you are not traveling with your husband, though." Hojo shifts his bag to his other arm and throws it over his shoulder. There's a white monkey on his head that looks around the area as though it is keeping watch.
The silence is deafening. Husband? Kagome doesn't seem like the type. Suguru cracks his knuckles.
Well... if she has one, Suguru will probably kill him too.
"I don't have a husband."
"Oh? You and InuYasha never..."
"Nope, InuYasha and I are just friends. He's married now." Kagome shrugs and resumes walking. Hojo walks next to her, ignoring Satoru and Suguru. "Actually, his kid should have been born by now, since Hana was in labor when we set out."
"So, you're single then?"
"Why are you asking her that?" Suguru intones.
He would like to know that too and why he thought Kagome and InuYasha were a couple. How much is she not telling them? A wave of guilt washes over him. It's not like he's sat down and given her his life story.
Hojo looks back at them and blinks. "Well...my house is growing, and I have enough to support two wives."
Crack.
A branch falls. Birds flap their wings, desperate to get away. A squirrel runs past. The monkey lets out a squeal and then strikes a pose on top of Hojo's head as if it wasn't frightened.
Hojo startles and lets out a laugh. "That was weird."
"Hojo, wouldn't that get confusing? You're already married to a Kagome." Kagome snorts, not at all taking this seriously.
Why isn't she taking this seriously? This Hojo just proclaimed that he wants to marry her and she's joking?
There is nothing funny about this situation.
"She can always change her name again. It is not a problem."
Satoru holds out an arm in front of Suguru. "What do you mean again?"
"Well, when I thought Kagome was with InuYasha, I gave up all hope. So, my wife begged me to marry her, and I conceded so long as she changed her name to Kagome." Hojo sighs. "Her birth name was truly terrible, and she didn't mind being Kagome for me."
"I'm gonna..." Suguru trails off, faltering under Kagome's gaze. "Pray that your wife finds someone that appreciates her."
Hojo frowns. "She is appreciated. I don't beat her or step outside the marriage." He wrinkles his nose. "Courting Kagome doesn't count. My wife knows, and she's prepared to play her role as second." He trips, but catches himself.
"Okay." Kagome claps. "Hojo, it was nice running into you, but we're busy. And I'm not interested."
"Oh. Oh. I see. You are with them, then?"
"Yes."
The murderous intent fades and Suguru looks lighter than he has in a while. Satoru gnaws on the inside of his cheek. Why is he thinking about killing this guy? He places a hand over his heart.
Yep, still working.
"Well... very well. I will not keep you." Hojo's shoulders droop as he takes off into the forest.
Good riddance.
"That was Hojo-kun's ancestor," Kagome says after Hojo's is gone from view. "That's what his mother was talking about that night."
"What night?" Suguru questions.
"The night he died. Hojo's mother wanted it to be known that they had a Kagome in their family history," Satoru says. He runs his tongue along his teeth. So, this really is the past. And her dead ex was named after that guy?
"Yeah, the first time Hojo showed me his family history, it gave me a scare." She rubs the back of her head. "I was like 15 then and marriage was not on my radar." A flash of sadness crosses her face and if he were less of a man, he would have missed it.
Does she want to get married?
Satoru cracks his neck and looks over in the direction Hojo walked off to. He can't look at Suguru right now.
"HELP!"
Satoru moves to Kagome's side, but she moves right past him, in the direction of trouble. He slaps his forehead. Why is she running off without them?
Wait...is he okay with letting this Hojo die?
"Satoru, what are you doing?" Suguru looks back at him as he runs after Kagome.
That's a good question. Why is he hesitating to save someone?
He runs ahead, moving in front of Kagome, who seems determined to put herself in harm's way. Who cares if this Hojo guy dies?
Satoru halts at the sight of the demon. Its skin is prickled with quills as if it wants to be a porcupine. It holds Hojo up with one hand, dangling the guy upside down. The items in Hojo's bag lie on the ground, scattered by the demon's hoofed feet. Okay, maybe not quite a porcupine, but close enough.
The white monkey jumps up and down on the ground, shaking its fists at the demon.
He slides his pack off and holds out an arm to stop Kagome from charging in.
"HELP ME!"
"Hold on Hojo!" Kagome yells out. Satoru grits his teeth. His feet won't move. Why is he hesitating? Suguru steps forward and sets his bag down. He glances at Satoru, but Satoru doesn't have the words to verbalize this turbulence going on in his psyche.
That man wants to make Kagome his wife. His second wife. No, he wants to push his current wife to the side and have Kagome. Going so far as to have his wife change her name to Kagome.
Satoru clenches a fist. He can't will his legs to help Suguru save the guy.
"Apologies, Kagome," Suguru says, summoning a curse. "But you want this mon—monk saved?"
"AHAHAHA" The demon laughs. It pats its big round belly. The sound of its palm hitting the armor sounds like someone just learning to play the drums. "I'll eat you and then I'll take that woman for myself."
"It's always the big ones," Kagome mutters.
Satoru rears back. Is this her normal? She is far too nonchalant about that demon wanting to take her.
"Sesshomaru would have your head!" Kagome yells out, pointing a finger at the demon. "Now put Hojo down!"
"Who the fuck is Sesshomaru?"
"You're asking me that now?"
"Is he a demon, too?"
"Uh... yeah. But does that matter right now?"
No. It shouldn't matter. But, yes, it does matter right now because who the fuck is Sesshomaru and why would he care what happens to Kagome? Satoru clucks his tongue and turns his attention back to the demon, who, despite Kagome's warning, doesn't seem to care too much about what this Sesshomaru might do.
Suguru pulls out playful cloud and dashes behind the demon. He hits him in the leg right as his curse spirit attacks the demon. Hojo wails as the demon throws him into the air, using him as a makeshift weapon to keep the curse back.
"Come on Suguru! Stop messing around. We still got a lot of ground to cover," he calls out, cupping his hands around his mouth. Suguru shoots him a dirty look.
"Should we really let him handle the demon by himself?" Kagome reaches for an arrow, but Satoru holds up a hand.
"He's never fought a demon before. I've never fought one before. Let him have his fun."
"You just told him to hurry it up."
"Well, that's because he's trying to show off." And he's eager to get away from this Hojo guy.
The demon screams right as it topples over. The arm holding Hojo is cut off. Suguru catches Hojo before he hits the ground and Satoru can practically taste the disgust in the air. He claps, smiling wider, when Suguru promptly drops Hojo on the ground. The curse spirit fades away as Suguru calls it back, but the demon's body remains.
Huh, it's still alive. Barely.
Suguru holds out a hand, and the demon digs its claws into the ground. Blood pours from where its other arm used to be. Its tongue hangs off to the side, salivating as it screams. The screams die down as Suguru creates a ball. He walks back over to them, leaving Hojo on the ground.
"Ya gotta eat it?" Satoru crosses his arms. Can he eat it? Not like there is a surplus of demons wandering around Tokyo.
Suguru looks down at the yellow ball and shrugs. He opens his mouth and swallows the ball whole.
"You consume them?" Kagome asks after a moment.
Satoru gnaws on his tongue. Kagome said she and Suguru exorcise curses together all the time. Has he never shown her how he obtains his curses?
Suguru coughs and looks away. "Yes, that's how I tame them."
Kagome frowns. "Every single one?"
"Yes." Suguru clenches his fists, though he keeps his face blank. Not that it matters to Satoru. He can see the fear of rejection in Suguru's eyes.
"Okay," Kagome says, nodding. "I should check on Hojo." She walks over to Hojo, who lets out the biggest cry.
Satoru glances at Suguru and shrugs. He can't tell what Kagome is thinking. Satoru runs his tongue along his teeth. "Suguru, wait."
"What?"
"If..." he lowers his voice. "If you did it, then you need to tell her before you get in too deep."
Suguru doesn't flinch. "Doesn't matter if I did what you think I did or not. I'm not letting either of you go now." Suguru smiles, and it's one he hasn't seen in years. "That monkey is getting into Kagome's bag."
"Oi! Kagome won't like that," Satoru huffs.
"No... the actual monkey. See." Suguru points and sure enough, the white monkey is getting into Kagome's stuff while she fusses over Hojo.
Satoru grimaces. Why is she fussing over that man? "Alright. But I'm serious. If you did it, you need to tell her before she falls more in love with you."
"Kagome doesn't love me."
"And here I thought you were the perceptive one." Satoru scratches the back of his head and grabs their bags off the ground. "Let's go before that monkey takes all our food, too." He frowns as Hojo stands, dusting off his pants.
Kagome doesn't want the guy, so why is he so irritated? She even said she was with him and Suguru.
Still... he wants this guy gone and on his merry way.
Hojo rubs the back of his head, bowing it slightly. "Is it possible for me to travel with you for the day? That was very traumatic and I'm afraid my legs are still shaken up." The white monkey jumps up on Hojo's shoulder and points a finger at Suguru, who shrugs and puts the items back in the bag.
Satoru rolls his eyes as he picks up Kagome's oversized yellow bag and gives her his much lighter one to carry. "You live in a place where demons are common. How can you not protect yourself?" he deadpans. This man has no control over the cursed energy he has. He has no spiritual powers like Kagome, and yet he can see the demons, so why the hell is he so weak?
Suguru's eyes widen. Satoru rolls his eyes again. It's common sense.
Kagome holds out her hands and places one on Satoru's chest. "I mean you can, but we're going to the kitsune school and—"
"Oh no, last time I went there, they gave me something terrible to drink and I could not stop my bowels from moving." Hojo holds his stomach and grimaces. "I'm positive it was Master Shippo who tricked me. He was the one that gave me the tea after all."
"Sounds like something my kid would do." Kagome moves her hand, but Satoru grabs it and flashes her smile. She shakes her head. "At any rate... why are you calling him Master Shippo?"
Hojo's face flushes red, and he drops to his knees, prostrating.
"Uh, Hojo, if you're talking, I can't hear you."
"Sorry," Hojo says, lifting his head. "It was a long time ago that Master Shippo demanded I refer to him as such. I did, after all, do something terrible against you."
Satoru clenches his teeth. His muscles ripple. What kind of harm?
Kagome points to herself with her free hand. "Me? You haven't done anything to me other than be annoying."
"It was the night before when we ran into Kaguya. I saw..." He sucks in a breath. The white monkey pats his face. "I saw you in the hot springs and I was mesmerized by how the water ran down—"
Boom!
"Sorry, that one was me," Satoru says cheekily. "You were saying?"
"I... Master Shippo found out and blackmailed me. I could not tell you the truth all these years."
Kagome sighs. "Honestly. Well, at least you apologized. It's more than Miroku has ever done."
"Who the hell is Miroku?" Satoru exclaims.
"Sango's husband. The lecherous monk I was telling you guys about. I mean, he's not so much a lech these days, but back then, yeah." Kagome leans into him. "Hojo is okay now, and he doesn't want to travel with us, so can we go? If we push it, we should make it to the school tomorrow before nightfall."
"Thank you for saving me!" Hojo yells, prostrating once more to Suguru, who plasters that fake smile on his face. Suguru's fingers twitch and for once, Satoru gets it.
It's not the right thing to do, but he wouldn't be all that upset if something ate Hojo on his way back to his wife.
"I'm worried about Suguru," Kagome says, setting the pot over the campfire to boil.
Satoru clucks his tongue. "You think he'll come back empty-handed?"
"I don't mean about his hunting skills. I mean him." She scrunches her nose. "Something's bothering him. Do you think it's too much? Should we pull back?"
"I think you pulling back would be the worst thing to happen to him." Satoru flexes his fingers. He has suspicions that Suguru killed Kagome's family, but Suguru isn't admitting to it. "Besides, you can't put it on a guy and take it away. Do you know how magical your pussy is?"
Kagome's mouth drops. Her cheeks flush. "Oh whatever," she mutters.
Satoru grins and then stops when Kagome turns away. Something is wrong with Suguru. Kagome pulling back now could cause Suguru to break. He's tethering the edge like he did before he ultimately broke and left Satoru alone.
"If ya are so worried, I know a way you could cheer him up."
"Do my clothes have to come off for this?"
"Nah, he could always slide your panties to the side."
Kagome snorts. "Sounds like you want to do that." She pulls out some noodles from her yellow bag and puts it in the boiling water.
"I always wanna do you," he confesses. "But I also like just being around you."
Kagome pauses and looks at him, really looks at him as though she only sees him as Satoru, the man. His heart pangs. She's never seen him as the strongest.
He's not sure how to feel about that.
The bushes rustle and Suguru walks into camp with three rabbits.
"Am I interrupting?"
Kagome smiles at Suguru. "The first night, yeah," she teases.
"Yeah, way to cockblock, Suguru."
Suguru throws the headless rabbits at him in succession. "You skin them."
Satoru pouts. "Fine." He guesses he can do it tonight since Kagome showed them how to do it the other night. Something about seeing her being so damn proficient with hunting is far more enticing than it ought to be.
"Come here," Kagome says to Suguru. She pats her lap. Suguru walks over with no objections. Which, why would he? He gave the rabbits to Satoru to skin.
"Am I in trouble?" Suguru jokes.
"No. I always wondered why your energy was so dark. It's darker than Satoru's, but it's because you take those things in." She brushes her hand over his forehead and over his hair. "If it hurts, tell me to stop."
She touches Suguru as though they have been lovers for years.
Sweetly.
Satoru glances down at the rabbits and sighs. He wants to be basking in Kagome's love, too.
But.
He glances at Suguru, with his head in Kagome's lap, and the peace on his face. Satoru picks up the knife. This is fine too. If the servants and the Gojo elders could see him now, they'd faint with the shock of him doing something so mundane in their eyes. Skinning rabbits, so they have meat for dinner. Strangely, he doesn't mind it. Being here is peaceful.
"What's Shippo like?" Satoru asks, needing to fill the silence.
Kagome pauses from running her fingers through Suguru's hair. "A trickster. Like all fox demons. Shippo-chan likes to play pranks. Sometimes it might be having someone go for a ride on his spinner, or maybe he's dropping a bunch of fox statues on you because you fell into the hole he covered up." She runs her fingers through Suguru's hair once more and leans over slightly to check on the noodles. "Shippo-chan has red hair, but I guess it's more auburn. And the biggest green eyes. He has a little puffy fox tail and paws for feet."
Satoru swallows as an image of Kagome caring for this fox takes root in his mind. There must be something in the air because he's losing his mind.
"At the end of the day, he's just a kid. Or kit. Whatever you want to call him. Shippo is young and as much as he pretends to be big and strong, he's still just a child." Kagome presses her lips together. "And he's far too interested in girls. I think Miroku may have influenced him too much."
Miroku? Right, that perverted monk.
"Suguru, how are you doing?"
"... Good," Suguru breathes. "More than good."
Satoru pouts. Is she using her energy on him? That's not fair. He hasn't felt the warm caress of her powers in far too long. Satoru stands and takes the container full of rabbit meat over to the fire. He dumps some cuts into the pot and then skews the rest for jerky.
"Stop being such a baby, Satoru." Suguru sits up and stretches. He kisses Kagome on the cheek.
"I'm not being a baby," he scoffs.
Suguru rolls his eyes and walks over to his bag, searching for something. "You are the biggest one here."
Satoru ignores him and instead watches, a little transfixed, as Kagome starts her night routine.
"Kagome," Satoru calls, "Can you come do the splits on it?"
Kagome pauses. Her body leaned to the right as she stretches. "I don't know." She sighs as she stretches to the left. "I don't wanna bewitch you any further."
"That's okay. I'd gladly go under your spell."
She snorts.
He crawls forward on his hands and knees, a sight that would have anyone other than Suguru concerned. He should have known since the night they met that Kagome was gonna make him lose his mind. Lose his reasoning. Satoru was doing so great and now look at him. Glady crawling on the dirt just to get closer to her.
Kagome's brows furrow together as she watches him.
"What are you doing?" She leans forward until her hands and upper body completely touch the ground.
He could watch her stretch for days.
"Coming to you." He sits off to the side of her and grabs her foot. His thumb presses into the sole, massaging her. "You know one of us could carry you, so you don't have to walk as much."
"I'm used to walking all over Japan." Kagome props her head up with her palm. Besides, we tried that and Suguru almost walked into a tree.
"Because," Suguru stresses, filling each of their bowls with stew. "Someone was kissing on my neck telling me how badly they wanted to get fucked later."
"Kagome, is that true?" Satoru sighs with a smile dancing across his face. He looks at Kagome with expectation.
"... I don't recall." She sits up and takes the bowl from Suguru. "Anyway, we should make it to the school by midday as long as nothing goes wrong." Kagome scrunches her nose and knocks a fist on the ground.
"That's not wood," Satoru quips.
"Come here and I'll knock on yours."
"Oho?" He grins, gripping his bowl tighter.
"Satoru, sit down and eat your food," Suguru says.
"What are you, my dad?"
"I can be. Sit."
Satoru's eyebrows rise. He blinks. He tries to formulate a comeback, but he's got nothing. What the fuck, Suguru? He stuffs his mouth and glares at Suguru as he eats.
"Do you two need privacy?" Kagome asks.
"For what?"
"I don't know, to talk it out?"
"We're fine. Satoru is just a brat," Suguru says, taking their bowls and silverware. "He must be on his best behavior when he's with you."
"Don't like how ya phrased that. You trying to start something?"
"It was a compliment."
Kagome stands and grabs her bag. "I'm taking a bath."
"Without me?" Satoru and Suguru ask. Satoru sticks his tongue out.
"Well, I don't want company if you guys are gonna bicker the whole time."
"We, won't. Satoru will be quiet."
"I can keep Suguru's mouth busy."
"The hell does that mean?" Suguru rounds on him.
"You know what it means. Besides, Kagome wants to see it."
"I never said that," Kagome says with a sigh. She taps a finger to her lips. "But I wouldn't mind seeing it either."
"Shut up, Satoru," Suguru grumbles, trailing behind Kagome.
Satoru blows out a breath. He was just saying shit... but now he can't get the image out of his mind. "Can you put another barrier?"
"Of course," Kagome quips, shimmying out of her clothes. The oxygen rushes out of his body and he's dizzy with need. He knows this is supposed to be a rescue mission in a sense and Kagome barely wants to stop for lunch during the day, but he can't help but long for when the night falls and Kagome allows herself to relax.
She glances over at them and quirks a brow.
Oh right, she wanted a show. Satoru grins as he tosses his shirt off and kicks off the rest of his clothes. He crooks a finger at Suguru as he walks into the hot spring. That boulder should work.
"I didn't agree to this," Suguru mutters, setting the bowls down by the edge. Suguru complains, but he slides out of his monk clothes anyway, and follows Satoru into the spring.
"Suguru!" Satoru gasps, covering his chest with one arm, while spreading his legs. "Don't look at me so indecently." He bats his eyelashes.
"Satoru, shut the fuck up before I drown you." Suguru shakes his head and places his hands on Satoru's thighs. "Not one more peep." Suguru opens his mouth and swallows as much of him as he can, but Satoru isn't an easy man to fit.
"Too much of a mouthful for ya?" He grins down at Suguru, who lifts a hand and flips him off. Satoru barks out a laugh.
"Do you two ever stop bickering?"
Suguru peers up at him through his dark eyelashes. Satoru swallows. Something about seeing Suguru with his cock in his mouth is giving him whiplash. His head is light. His limbs feel boneless. He glances over at Kagome and bites his lip, silently begging her to come over. But she shakes her head and laughs.
What a tease.
"Ugh, Suguru, you can't suck a dick for shit," Satoru complains, threading his fingers through Suguru's hair. The boulder is cool, but the steam from the hot spring keeps him warm.
"I can stop."
"Please do," he quips. "Kagome-chan, I'm begging ya." Kami, he needs to feel Kagome. Going out of his mind here and she doesn't care.
"I'm not done watching," is all she says, but her ass is in the air as she digs through that awful yellow bag of hers and his mouth salivates.
He just needs her on his tongue.
"Ugh, fine. Suguru, you gotta relax that jaw."
Suguru glares up at him with his hand wrapped around his cock. "Keep it up and might just bite."
"You wouldn't... shit," he breathes.
"Don't bust in my face."
"Please, as if I would bless you with my come. The only one I'm coming in is Kagome."
"Not if you come early."
"Okay, no one is coming in me until I find my birth control. I swear I had it last night." Kagome sighs and crosses her arms, but all it does is push her tits together and Satoru is hanging by a thread.
"Sug—ah!"
Fucking bastard.
"Was it the monkey?" he asks, hissing softly as Suguru sucks harder.
"I don't know. Did he get in the bag?"
Suguru pulls back. "I'm sorry. I thought he grabbed some candy."
Satoru presses his lips into a flat line. The fuck he did. Suguru is lying through his teeth.
"That's fine... I don't want to waste time backtracking." She walks over and joins them in the hot spring. "But I'm not doing anything until we get back home then."
Satoru freezes.
Suguru's grip on him loosens.
"Satoru," Suguru says, but it comes out as a question and Satoru wants to throttle him. They are in this mess because he let the stupid monkey take Kagome's pills.
"I'll go after you finish the damn job," he growls out, gripping Suguru's hair.
"Go where?" Kagome ducks her head under the water and the sight alone does him in.
"I told you not to—"
"Shush," Satoru says, holding Suguru's head. "I'm gonna go get your pills back from the monkey. I know what Hojo's energy feels like. I'll be back."
He lets Suguru's head go and slides off the boulder.
Ugh, he just wanted to relax with Kagome and now he has to clean up Suguru's messes.
What a pain.
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A/N: I saw that some of you are also feeling a bit under the weather, so I'm praying for a speedy recovery! Get some rest this weekend and drink plenty of water. Maybe binge some anime while you lie in bed. Whatever you do, just make sure to take care of yourselves!
Sukuna and Uraume are not 'alive' during this time, but Tengen and Kenjaku are. Not gonna give it all away, but Kenjaku is a problem.
"What schemes can Suguru cook up?" - He's not really scheming right now so much as he is enjoying having Kagome and his best friend back...And I guess he didn't really stop the monkey from taking the birth control.
"Would they pass the orange peel test?" - Yes, both of them. Suguru took it up the ass to be with Kagome, he'll peel an orange. Satoru dropped everything for an unknown amount of time to be with her.
"Satoru and Kagome are endgame?" - Yeah...I said that back in like chapter one or two, but uh Suguru's defense team works harder. It's looking like a happy ending for Suguru too. It won't be an easy journey, but we'll get there.
I didn't know Suguru's favorite food was soba. They'll have to all have dinner together when they get back to their time.
"Will we see the Gojo clan?" - I haven't decided yet if we will. But we'll see Kenjaku.
Next update will probably be A Thousand Days even though I just updated it, but I couldn't stop writing the club scene lol.
Here's a sneak peek:
Satoru leans back. "Have you…" he pauses. "Have you ever had an orgasm?"
Kagome blinks.
Satoru stares.
He wets his lips. "Do you want one?"
Kagome wrinkles her nose. "Sleeping with coworkers leads to trouble."
"I'm the least problematic coworker you have."
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Custom Toonami Block Week 136 Rundown
Spy X Family: So the group finds out they actually failed getting into Edin College despite what happened last episode but it’s okay since Elegance Man punching out the asshole dude did bump them up to the top of the waiting list and there’s almost always a dropout or two. Yor’s just immediately on board for murdering someone to improve their chances which is fucking funny but luckily it doesn’t come to that and like one night later they get a call that they’re in. They have a mini-party with Count Scruffyhead (I didn’t learn his real name and that’s what they call him for this episode so that’s what I’m gonna call him) and him and Yor get drunk off their fucking asses and convince Loid that Anya deserves a reward for getting in and that somehow turns into him calling in thousands of dollars worth of Spy Resources to stage a Lupin the Third style phantom thief rescue mission in an unopened theme park for Anya’s favorite show. So basically Loid gets to show off his spy skills in the Disney castle to J-pop while Count Scruffyhead hams it up as the villain and drunk Yor vibes in the background. The final boss actually is drunk-ass Yor and luckily she passes out before she can fucking accidentally kill Loid and I have no idea how any of these people have alibis around each other anymore like I guess Loid just thinks Yor’s some Rock Lee style drunken boxers who can flip cows over idk everyone’s really smart about their own secrets and really dumb about everyone else’s secrets but that’s the name of the game I guess but if they ever try to pull an actual reveal where they find out what’s going on there’s gonna be a like ‘You know there WERE signs…’ deal. But yeah, not it’s time for the greatest challenge of all… private school.
Inuyasha: It’s the start of the Naginata of Kenkon filler arc and if you told me this was a recycled script from a scrapped Inuyasha movie I’d believe you. We start off with Kagome sucking at school as usual for someone that goes to school like ten days a year, when Hojo busts in like ‘yo check out my family tree there’s a girl named Kagome that means there’s logical precedent for us getting together right?’ and Kagome’s too full of school-related despair to even acknowledge it at the time but she’s the only know that knows it’s technically possible that it could really be her since they do know Hojo’s ancestor from the second movie. I remember being so confused as a kid because I DID see the second movie but it’s not like they played them in order or anything so I kinda forgot Akitoki was in it by the time this episode came around. But yeah the plot does kinda a decent job of weaving into canon with Akitoki saying he wanted to get his cursed family blade purified at Mt. Hakurei but since Mt. Hakurei kinda blew up at the end of that arc and a bunch of demons flew out it prolly won’t work so Kaede directs them to the second most holy and thankfully much closer shrine around. Along the way Hojo’s Milo Murphying his way through shit because of the curse which I guess having an enormously cursed half of a demon naginata translates to ‘being kinda clumsy disturbingly frequently’ and also they’re being attacked by Demon Ninjas… which are demons that are also ninjas. I feel like playing that scene from DBZ Abridged where Piccolo calls out the filler villain squad every time because we basically always get the same group which is weird because Inuyasha doesn’t do villain squads all THAT often and getting non-Inuyasha fights is usually a nice change of pace but usually there’s not much to the design besides an elemental demon for one of the lesser guys to fight, Anyway they get bombed by the demon ninjas and Kagome and Hojo get thrown off a bridge, the end.  
Yu Yu Hakusho: Now that Kurama’s starting to put together the pieces of how Gamemaster’s power works, he realizes that the kid will die when he loses the game since the Goblin King dying is part of the game’s ending, unlike players that have continues and can start over. Apparently Sensui’s nihilism made him pick a game that will off one of his teammates even if he does exactly what he wants, probably a ‘better to die in a game than be killed by demons or live in this corrupt world’ kind of villain motivation. He tells Gamemaster this right before the game starts and the kid who’s only motivation is ‘the apocalypse cancels school right?’ fucking breaks down knowing now that he’s playing the villain the only way out is death. This comes into play as Kurama’s game against him is what I can only describe as Sudoku Tetris which sounds ridiculously hard. Gamemaster thinks back to meeting Sensui which is a scene FULL of stranger danger at this point and it looks like he does have at least some idea of what he’s gotten himself into but was mostly in it to make video games real. The realization that he’s going to die kind of makes it hard to focus even for the guy that knows the fucking code of this game inside and out because apparently Sudoku Tetris isn’t as predictable as the quiz show. Kurama’s not about to hesitate to kill a kid though and brutally ends the game with less than half his screen full. Kurama’s fucking pissed Sensui led a child to throw his life away without even knowing it and Hiei’s just like ‘yeah we kill kids all the time no biggie at least I didn’t have to play a fucking video game’ which I kinda wish we got a scene of Hiei playing Fruit Ninja or some shit but yeah now we’ve got a dead kid and we’re at the final boss and now Gourmet and Kuwabara are in the boat instead of the psychic monk guy so Kurama’s ready to murder everyone because he does not like being forced to murder kids though this series is terrible with sticking to sad death scenes so I doubt this’ll stick.
Jujutsu Kaisen: So yeah Sukuna’s out and about now and challenges Megumi to a fight to celebrate his new body-having…ness but not before ripping out his own heart since if Yuji switches back while he doesn’t have a heart he’ll die but for Sukuna it’s a mild inconvenience. Megumi wants to fight him to force him to heal enough for Yuji to come back but this guy’s the final boss and Megumi’s Part 1 Sasuke levels of ‘stronger than he should be but not strong enough to break the story flow’ and he’s also dropping shadow puppets left and right. We get a little of his backstory which is your standard ‘mom was cool and died but dad named be after a girl and left’ backstory, you know how it goes, hopefully we’ll get more info on that later because we seem to be getting driveby flashbacks without much depth for these backstories. But yeah before Megumi can do his super ultimate shadow technique deal, Yuji comes back and fucking dies on the spot. Gojo’s mad and says it was probably people pissed off at Gojo himself and wanting to spite him for getting Yuji’s execution on hold but that’s kinda fucked up because they had not guarantee it’d be Yuji that died or that it wouldn’t also kill Nobara and Megumi. But yeah, Yuji’s dead and only took three fingers with him, so uhhh… short series, guess we’re focusing on Megumi and Nobara’s survivor’s guilt now. We also meet the second year squad, discount Nanao Ise, Rice Ingredient Man and Pandaman, because we learned from Tekken that if you just throw a Panda into a fight it’ll be way more fun. They invite Megumi and Nobara to your local shonen tournament dealie and their friend just died because they couldn’t beat up a giant naked man without the help of their friend’s four-armed hollow tailed beast deal so they’re like ‘yeah sure training arc sounds good’. Also Yuji’s not dead because of course he’s not but it still is pretty creepy to think that he’s like a corpse and the original heart and hand he was born with are gone now like it’s like the Ship of Theseus how much does Sukuna have to heal him before he’s a completely different person from when he started?
Chainsaw Man: Picking up immediately where we left off with Denji about to feel up Power, aside from her padding her chest the whole experience isn’t the world-shattering nirvana-inducing eternal bliss he was expecting. He brings it up to Makima in a similar yet more crude way to Fullmetal Alchemist: if the pursuit of the dream is more enioyable than attaining it then what’s the point? Makima basically tells him that pleasure is fleeting but you can extend it with torturous teasing and actually giving a fuck about the person by forming a parasocial relationship with them, so basically the same model used by OnlyFans. She also wins him over by promising to fuck him if he gets the big head honcho arc Devil so we’ve basically reset the goalpost of the arc to introduce a real villain. We also get a little of Aki’s backstory and get to see his whole family killed by the Gun Devil which should probably be called the Nuclear Bomb Devil with how it fucking obliterates shit in seconds (if this took place in the 1960s it would definitely be the Nuclear Bomb Devil). But yeah when there’s supernatural devils running around everywhere people just start buying up guns so the whole world became America for a bit and America became SUPER AMERICA so there was a terrorist attack that shot that through the roof (I like how there’s a number of actual attacks this could be referencing but since it’s America it doesn’t even narrow it down a little and probably for the best since relating it too close to an actual attack in your manga about groping boobs would probably offend people). So then the world basically banned and censored guns to cut off its power but peeps are still afraid of it because who wouldn’t be. Also I’m like 100% sure America didn’t actually sign on to the bans because the most American thing to do is be like “GUN DEVIL!? WE CAN SOLVE THAT WITH MORE GUNS!!” But yeah now they gotta collect the jewel shards since enough bullets will act like a compass to the real Gun Devil. Aki Squad and Himeno Squad go to a hotel to hunt down one such bullet-eating devil and spend way too much time talking about smooching Himeno and Denji pretends to be monogamous for like 0.00001 seconds before going balls to the walls on getting smooched. Turns out Himeno and Aki used to be partners and while Aki decided to become Sasuke with a boner for his superior, Himeno decided to literally just fuck around and find out, I mean that’s her prerogative, also she got a ghost hand, feels like a literal embodiment of the fear of ghosts should be able to do more than squeeze shit but I guess that’s all you get for the payment of an eye. Also the hotel is doing some PT-Shining shit and looping and we’ve got a perfect cast of horror movie dumbasses so this should be fun.
Ranking of Kings: Turns out Kage was in Bojji’s bag the whole time and that’s why it protected his head after he fell off the tower and why it returned to him randomly after it got stolen, and it was even Kage protecting him from eating the poisoned food by the campfire, honestly that’s really good foreshadowing, enough to make you realize something’s going on without outright giving it away. Turns out creepy snake dude actually sent Kage to protect Bojji while trustworthy sword dude was the one trying to kill him, real Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone switcheroo. Kage gives Bojji a new crown and leads him down deeper into the literal hell hole saying that the king of the underworld will help make Bojji strong enough to fend off all the attempts on his life. Meanwhile Daida is having a Rick and Morty style montage of multiple things being murdered to create a simple drink including throwing his dad’s corpse into a wood chipper and super murdering a phoenix to make a good ol’ dad shake just in time for father’s day. Turns out creepy snake guy’s full of good advice since Daida flashes back to him telling him struggling for strength is what makes him strong and he throws the dad shake away, fully pissing off his magic mirror but given it’s just a pane of glass it ain’t gonna do shit, though weird Spear Guy who Daida almost had killed is on his way down to find him so who knows. Meanwhile Domas gets confronted by the other guard guy that actually likes Bojji and Domas is flashing back to Daida being like ‘wow you sure are untrustworthy for verbally betraying your student, to prove you’re trustworthy to me you should kill that student’ which doesn’t make any kind of sense but okay. Anyway second guard dude is pissed but he can’t do shit so Domas knocks him out and cuts off his own hand as punishment or some shit idk this episode got real bloody real quick between dismemberments and turning people into milkshakes.
Vinland Saga: With Thorfinn now trapped on the ship of the guy he wants to kill he finds screaming about murder isn’t enough to keep him alive and almost dies of thirst before Askeladd’s crew hit land at another village and Thorfinn passes out long enough for the real pillaging to start. Thorfinn finds Askeladd sleeping and is about to just fucking murder him in his sleep but takes at least part of his dad’s pacifist message to heart and decides if he’s gonna commit bloody murder he’ll at least commit Odin-sanctioned bloody murder and kill Askeladd in a duel. The funny thing is it looks like Askeladd was awake and was ready to let him kill him if he tried to jump him in his sleep but as soon as he gets challenged to a real fight he just beats the shit out of Thorfinn since the kid’s using a sword that’s basically the same height as him. Thorfinn does a mini training arc in the woods and figures out he’s better off with his knife since he can swing it easier and throw it. We also cut back to Ylva and she’s working through her grief in her own way by overworking and as soon as she’s forced to take a second’s rest she breaks down crying (if this series was about Ylva hunting down her father’s killer and being a badass Viking lady I’d still watch that) also Leif says he’s gonna find Thorfinn but apparently they didn’t think to look too hard when they lost him like it’s not a big boat where the fuck did they think he was I really wanna know what happened in that scene. Thorfinn’s basically doing the camping montage from the All is One, One is All episode of FMA and gets like 10% more deadly which is pretty good for what’s implied to be a long weekend but it’s not enough to take down adults so Askeladd just kicks his ass again and tells him he’ll fight him again when he’s proven himself as a real warrior. So now we’ve got our kid with borderline Stockholm syndrome ignoring his father’s wishes to live up to the toxic masculinity of his culture, basically the exact inverse of How to Train Your Dragon.
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A part of me will always be a little salty that we had to wait almost 20 years to get an "official" InuKag baby when Sunrise already put Akitoki x Kagome kids into the actual OG anime:
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And the fact that we only got our InuKag baby at the price of a shitty, controversial "sequel" still makes me mad 😑
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sailorstarr-chan4 · 3 years
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Episode 138, "Mountain of Demons: Survival of the Duo"
- "It's hilarious that Kagome has more feelings for Hojo's ancestor than Hojo himself."
- Akitoki: "Ahhh, Kagome Hojo. That has a nice ring to it 😍"
My fiancé: "Be. Less. Creepy!!!"
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born-for-eachother · 4 years
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Speaking of Hojo...remember when Akitoki Hojo tried to kiss a sleeping Kagome that one episode? Like Akitoki Hojo must have thanked the heaven and stars above that Inuyasha wasn’t there to kick his ass back 10 centuries asdfghjk holy shit
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you know in ep 140, Akitoki Hojo declared his love for Kagome while they were battling Hoshiyomi, and when he did, Inu looked up in jealousy? I've read, Inu wasn't really jealous of Akitoki, he didn't see him as a particular love rival, because he was weak. Unlike Koga, who was strong, and able to protect Kagome, which Inu doesn't like. Still, Inu still dislikes Akitoki because it's kinda obvious he has something for Kagome. Is that why Inu was rude w him in those eps, he was jealous?
Well first off episode 140 is filler so maybe Sunrise didn't want to make Inuyasha too jealous because they knew Akitoki Hojo would most likely never be mentioned again? I haven't watched that episode in ages but if Inuyasha feels OOC it's probably because it's anime-only, lol.
But to be honest? I think the fandom tend to overexaggerate how "jealous" Inuyasha really is.
(warning: the rest of this post is very critical of koga so maybe don't read if you love him as a character)
Inuyasha has perfectly reasonable reasons to hate Koga and to want him away from Kagome: Koga is a mass murderer who let his wolves eat countless humans, who kidnapped Kagome, put her in danger and disrespected her.
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(He calls Inuyasha "inu koro" which means "dog shit" which is pretty much a slur)
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I love Kagome with all my heart but honestly defending Koga after all this is honestly one of the most incomprehensible thing she's done and I hate that she constantly stops Inuyasha from beating him up. I guess Kagome's flaw here is that she's just too nice and tries to see the good in even the worst people (I mean she did try to sympathize with Naraku of all people) but Inuyasha is completely right here, imo.
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I generally hate the way Rumiko wrote Koga and all the scenes he's in because he never gets a redemption arc but all the characters act like he's an okay dude because he's straight forward about the fact that he wants to be with Kagome?? And Inuyasha is portrayed as "jealous" for being annoyed at the fact that Kagome is nice to him despite all the horrible things he's done?? It's very bizarre to me, I feel like Miroku got more flack for groping women than Koga ever did for slaughtering countless innocent humans. I mean he indirectly killed Rin and that's never even addressed.
Or maybe I should say I hate the way Rumiko wrote "jealousy" when it comes to inukag because she did the same with Kikyo. She made Kikyo a vengeful revenant who tries to kill Kagome and Inuyasha and is generally awful to everyone, then Kikyo didn't get a redemption arc, everyone started acting like she's never done anything wrong and Kagome was portrayed as being a bad person for disliking her.
Anyway sorry, you didn't ask for a whole rant about this, lol. I think with Akitoki, Inuyasha can understand why Kagome would be nice and friendly with him because he's a generally harmless person so the thought of Kagome having feelings for him doesn't really cross his mind, whereas with Koga he doubts Kagome because her having feelings for him is the only way he can explain her defending & protecting him.
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